A woman sprayed a judge’s car with ‘holy water’ and said there was a bomb under it, during an incident in Plymouth this morning. Plymouth Herald reports Judge Paul Darlow, who is presiding over a rape trial at the crown court, told the gathered jury this was why he was half an hour late for proceedings.

Plymouth’s resident judge gave his explanation for be late after police were scrambled to Plymouth city centre this morning after a woman claimed there was bomb inside a vehicle.

One eyewitness said about six police cars arrived outside Plymouth Crown Court and shut off the building on Armada Way shortly after 9.30am.